Using R-2.12.1 and latticeExtra-0.6-14, I would like to understand why a rootogram displaying samples from the Poisson distribution looks like I expected it, whereas a rootogram using the normal distribution does not:
library(latticeExtra) rootogram(~rpois(1000, lambda = 50), dfun = function(x) dpois(x, lambda = 50)) rootogram(~rnorm(1000), dfun = function(x) dnorm(x,mean(x),sd(x))) I probably can't attach figures here. Thus a textual description of what I get may suffice: With increasing sample size, the rootogram using random samples from the Poisson distribution shows decreasing differences (bars are quickly approaching the zero line), whereas the displayed differences for random samples of the normal distribution are always large. The differences even increase with sample size, i.e, the hanging bars tend to vanish for very large samples. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
